If you’re a Decatur-liver and a downtown Atlanta commuter, you may welcome this news – IF you ride (or fantasize about riding) a bike to work and you don’t break out in hives thinking about riding on the PATH trail.

According to Atlanta’s transport sage, Thomas Wheatley, PATH is in the final stages of extending the Freedom Park Trail down Harris Street thru downtown Atlanta to Centennial Park.

Two lanes of traffic along Harris Street would be removed to transform the road into a more pedestrian friendly thoroughfare with a 10-foot-wide bike path, a tree-lined buffer and new crosswalks.

Wheatley reports that the project costs around $2 mil and would be paid for by the PATH Foundation.  Though it sounds close to becoming a reality, PATH is currently working with area businesses to address concerns about deliveries, if two lanes were taken out of Harris Street to accommodate the um…path.

Lately, the AJC seems to be picking up many of the stories that have concerned us lil’ Decatur blogs.

Today the paper is profiling the battle up at Mason Mill Park over the prospective PATH trail, which has received extensive coverage by InDecatur.

In my humble opinion it still sounds like a bikers vs. hikers argument with neighbors on either side.

Read the full article here.

(Photo Courtesy of the AJC)